ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,568, issued on March 18, was assigned to BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KG (Berlin).
"Power source for implantable medical device" was invented by Jeffrey A. von Arx (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Richard Berthelsdorf (Dundee, Ore.) and Larry Stotts (Fulshear, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy supplying component (100) includes a plurality of power sources (161, 171, 181, 191) and at least one switch (163, 165, 167, 173, 175, 177, 183, 185, 187, 193, 195, 197). Each power source of the plurality of power sources is configured to output a defined energy level. The at least one switch is configured to reversibly combine two or more power sourc...